Rinse and repeat.

Emphasis on  repeat. Seems that I can only get through my rewrite to a certain point and then it all goes to pieces. Then I have to write yet another rewrite for the rewrite in order to fix something that went tragically wrong. Often its so wrong that I have no idea where to pull the thread and unravel the mess that I made. It also doesn't help that my characters are going ahead without me, telling me a story that I'm not prepared to write yet. They are on book two and here I sit on book one ironing out all the details and making it nice and shiny.

All this so that book two will come along so much easier and hopefully without the pain of childbirth every time that I open up a word document. Though it could be said that I brought this all on myself since I did everything bass ackward. I wrote a multi-main character book in first person. I didnt define the world as well as it should have been and my characters need some fine tuning.
Now I am changing it from first to third, flushing out my world and characters and adding my descriptions so that the concept and characters can be "seen" by the reader.

But enough of my complaining. I still love the story and now that I have my formula I think that I am back in business. I might even start posting excerpts from the book just to get some opinions. Hopefully this will be my final rinse.

The failure of music

I must apologize for iPod magic. I liked the idea, but it didn't pan out. mostly because I made the mistake of implementing a new project in the middle of finals. Not to mention the fact that I am in the middle of a rather hairy rewrite of my primary WIP.


So iPod magic, while the idea is neat, especially considering my iPod's content, is on hold for the foreseeable future. I can however tell you a little bit about the concept that I began when it came to what was supposed to be a story based off of Bruno Mars' "It Will Rain".

My story was based off of a man who lives a quiet life to himself. Throughout the story it seems like he is in mourning. His wife has died. There are continual (not overbearingly, however) references to "when she was here" or "it was done for her". Now I only got roughly a thousand words in before I had to put the keyboard away for books, but I had the story outlined. The story was to continue to unfold about this half a life that this man now leads and then at the end of the story we find out what happened to his wife.
She comes over to pick up the divorce papers that he has just signed.

I think another issue that arose for me was that this isn't my genre (general fiction). To me, real people and their lives aren't that interesting. I'm a fan of things with a supernatural/sci-fi bent, so this story about a man being swallowed by the misery of his divorce didn't scream out "oo-ooo, write me!" and therefore, it didnt get written.

I will put it on my back burner with the rest of my simmering ideas and maybe, one day, it will get written, even if its just for me.

Well, I am off to nurse a migraine. Hopefully I will be back in my regular schedule pretty soon.